Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Do you see this mess? Selah June discovered all kinds of clothes in her closet, and this felt hat was in the mix. She insisted on wearing it to school. (Keep in mind it is in the high 90s right now.) She couldn’t wait to show all of her teachers her hat, and she still had it on when I picked her up later that afternoon.

Apparently, her arch nemesis, Gage, is a really physical kind of kid. Everything Gage does is aggressive. He hits – why we don’t like him. And he hugs – especially all the moms. When Selah June gets to school, the first person to greet her is Gage. And he wants to give her a bear hug. She leans over next to me, sometimes grabbing my leg, and whines “noooooo… No, Gage!” And the teachers tell him, “Gage, not yet.  Give her some space, Gage.” It’s almost like she needs her morning coffee before she can interact with the intensity of Gage-style friendship that early in the morning.

The other thing that’s been a thing this week is that the kids all need to play outside, but it’s way too hot. So they have a few activities that they can play in the shade. One of them is a sandbox with toys. She loves to make things with all the sand, building things on the table by the door. But she’s very proprietary. If I come to pick her up, and the other kids are waiting to play with her toys and sand, she has to mess it all up. It has to be a disaster so that 1) she’s not leaving some she wants to play with and 2) they will not have the advantage of benefitting from her labor. It’s really funny (and a little dictatorial).